Miami High Vs. Edison A Big Game

Sports Forum - The fans pick their favorite rivaries

December 1, 1991

I KNOW of no greater rivalry in the state of Florida than the one between Miami Edison and Miami High School. Times have changed, but I still think of the game that was played every Thanksgiving night in the Orange Bowl. Tradition, something we have lost over the years, is what it was all about.

My mother went to Dade County Agricultural High School, graduating in 1931. The school was later known as Miami Edison, and I graduated from those halls in 1959. As a youngster, mother would walk me over to the field to watch them practice. Older, I'd ride my bike and watch my ''heroes'' practice, and my folks would take me to every game.

To an outsider it seemed hardly a rivalry. When I arrived at Edison, Miami High had won 31 games, Edison one, with two ties. My cousin, who was a year younger, and I swore when we were kids, ''They won't win when we get there.''

I didn't get in the game, but just being on the squad that beat Miami High my junior year was a big thrill. As a senior, we lost, 13-7. My cousin's senior year, Edison won again.